For those fellow readers the tittle of this entry will sound familiar. It certainly is because we posted something similar a while ago with almost the same actors.
I happened to travel, not long ago, to the north east of Spain. That land, so called Galicia but long known by the Roman Empire as the place where the earth ended (finis terrae), hosts a dramatic scenery. Is a green, wild and unexplored land of legends, sorcery and traditions. Or I should probablyu said it was a green land?
During the last week and half (for those reading this in the future, from the second week of August 2006), this land has been burned by an uncountable number of fires. Once that is something fairly typical in Spain, mostly during the Summer, it is not that typical in this part of Spain where weather is wet and temperatures do not raise as much as in the rest of the country (for those of you thinking what it is like, think about Ireland or England but with seafood).
What is exceptional, as I said, is not the number of fires but the way the fires have been handled by the authorities. Who are they? The authorities, the so called progresits are made out of a coalition from the independentists (BNG) and the socialism branch that helds government in Spain, called PSdeG, who actually lost the elections back a year ago. The president of the community, the ugly of this story is no other than Touriño. Oh, before I continue, do not even try to read the webpages of these two parties, at least you read and understand "gallego" because they simply can not bother less to see that in a globalized world the best thing they can do is to close themselves, look at their bellies and say how nice we are that speak a language nobody else understands. Anyway, coming back to Touriño, to putt it nicely, he is one of those useless politicians that without knowing why or what to do got lucky and created a coalition to rule the government. He could not be worst.
The bad, oh the bad. The bad is no other than mr ZP. I was reading, three or four weeks ago The Economist and was surprised, actually very surprised, of an article were they were praising Zapatero for his good politics. I always thought that The Economist was a good reading (when having coffee, commuting or before going to bed) but not an excellent reading (a place where you read articles that are deep in content and there is a lot of research done by some people before it goes live to the print edition) but this time, they had passed the limits. They proved a complete lack of interest on knowing what is hapenning in Spain, what this guy is doing and what is not (which is more than what he is by the way) but also were insulting their readers. I will come back to this issue another day, but for now let me say they are about to lose a subscriber.
Back to the bad, Zapatero is the worst of the worst ever. By far is the worst president nowadays in the EU and we just do not deserve it. Instead of taking an active role during the affair of the fires, he decided to stay holidays, sun bathing, siesta taking and seafood eating whilst the others were literally burning. A president that cares about his people cancels holidays even more when there were dead during the last week, people that died because the government was unable to respond with an appropiate strategy to the situation. But he decided to keep the sunbathing. Maybe he got burned too (I hope so) and maybe he will stay there and never come back. ZP you are bad, very bad. You could not be worst. And this is the second time this happens (remember Guadalajara)?
The good. The poor people of Galicia, those who see their forests burning and our beloved President doing nothing, this goes for you. Please keep up there and once everything is gone, demand to ZP what you believe has to be demanded.